#[Roran]

[thearunadragon]

Eragon would be the first one to cry watching a sad movie. Nasuada’s concerned, Murtagh’s asleep, Arya’s munching on popcorn, Roran and Katrina are not paying attention (at least not to the movie), Thorn’s wondering if Murtagh’s brother is okay, Saphira’s rolling her eyes and patting Eragon on the head, and Fírnen is really upset that the dog died.

Orrin’s drunk.

[dia-viller]

"The most dramatic stubborn family"

[tonhalszendvics]

As I was looking for a copy for myself in English, I came across this one. This is from Slovakia.

I wasn't able to find Brisingr, but here's the other three:

[alagaesia-headcanons]

Being super dramatic is a family trait shared between Eragon, Murtagh, and Roran, but in different ways. Eragon is especially dramatic when he's making decisions, but not always in the way he talks about it. Particularly later in the series he can be quite frank and even about bat shit choices, for example, when discussing that he's decided to leave Alagaesia for the rest of his indefinite life because he had his fortune told once. On the other hand, Murtagh is usually quite practical with his actual decision making, but he does love to make a dramatic spectacle. Like the way he takes Zar'roc from Eragon as a way to reveal that they're brothers, he's so extra.

And then there's fucking Roran who trumps both of them by being infinitely more dramatic in both way. The theatrics are constantly off the charts with this man. Completely unhinged with zero chill, he always takes the most over the top option available in every situation and makes such a scene of it. His fucking speech to convince the villagers to leave Carvahall, the way he insists on going through the boar's eye, his ploy to scare the empire away from their camp at Aroughs solely with feigned overconfidence. This man contemplates every possible way to murder Nasuada's guards while waiting to see her and believes they must be thinking the same about him, like no babe, it's just you, no one else is this melodramatic and feral

[thedoroftheo]

HOLD THE FUCK UP, THE ERAGON FANDOM IS ALIVE ON HERE?? LOOOOORD I AM HOOOOOOOME!!!

[insanity-all-the-time]

inheritance cycle nation will you pls give me your fic recommendations 🙏🙏

[good-morzan-inheritance-cycle]

Facing some eldrich horror

Eragon: that doesn’t seem like a good idea… maybe I should think this one through and come back to it.

Roran: If it can bleed… IŤ CÅŇ ÐÌE

[cbarc]

some roran doodles

[modern-inheritance]

Okay, everyone? We need to have a serious talk.

There's a new rule.

Never, ever...Introduce Odysseus of Ithaca...to Roran Stronghammer. Alright? We good? We don't...we don't need a combination of that energy. We need them to understand they got back to their lady and...and that they did some great and terrible things...but we do not need them getting together at some point to talk about it.

Just...let them both take a nap.

[im-surviving-off-of-tea11]

roran and eragon comparing bruises makes me so unreasonably happy. your honor they are but brothers

[mattizard]

Eragon alignment charts just because

[thearunadragon]

Which IC characters think that Die Hard is a Christmas movie?

hehehehehAHAHAHAHA THIS. I WANT THIS.

MURTAGH: Says it is a Christmas movie because it takes place at Christmas.

ERAGON: (said as he cries while mixing cookie batter) “it’s a Christmas movie because everyone dies around my holidays too!” *distressed cry-laughing ensues* *weepy stirring*

NASUADA: Does not think it is a Christmas movie.

ARYA can go two ways: 1. is so absolutely enveloped in the film’s action, clutching a tub of popcorn to her chest, that she completely forgot it was even Christmas time in the movie. OR, 2. Is now crouching behind her couch in her apartment with a Christmas Glock, wide eyed and searching for snipers in that renaissance painting that she always knew looked her a little funny—

ISLANZADÍ: *intensely stroking Blagden while she tries to figure out what the F*CK her daughter’s been doing* *forgets what Christmas is*

OROMIS: has never seen Die Hard because he secretly watches chick flicks and only chick flicks

ORIK: “CHRISTMAS MOVIE TILL GÛNTERA’S BEARD ROTS IN THE PITS OF TANDOTHH!” *roars* *axe flies into wall* “WOO!”

GARZHVOG: Is wearing a Christmas hat and grinning at the screen, popcorn between his teeth as he watches the film. “HO HO HO—BOOM!”

ALÍN: *peering timidly around the corner to watch* “I don’t think I like this Christmas much…” does not want to go there for Christmas. Probably thinks this is a vacation ad.

RORAN: Absolutely thinks Die Hard is a Christmas movie and has PowerPoint slides to prove it. Katrina does not feel the same way but has given up.

GARROW: No

BROM: Yes.

SAPHIRA considers it the Christmas movie that all Christmas movies should aspire to be, FÍRNEN is shivering with sheer excitement, and THORN is worried about Murtagh’s cookie-baking little brother and will not watch the film because he does not like the violence.

UVEK: responding to everything like an bear if bears reacted to laser pointers the way cats do

[dia-viller]

My headcanons

Eragon feeds and pets every single stray cat or dog he meets

Murtagh has a complex haircare routine

Roran would one night tell Ismira a story about one brave spellcaster he once knew

Orrin almost burned down his castle during his one experiment.

Thorn loves kids. He can't wait for Murtagh to have kids. He would protect and play with them.

Nasuada and Murtagh love gossip about everything (they are literally gossip buddies)

Arya lets Eragon braid her hair

Saphira and Thorn once drank so much mead that Eragon and Murtagh just passed out

When something happens in Alagaësia, Nasuada and Arya would place bets on who caused it. (the only candidates are Roran, Eragon, and Murtagh)

Eragon would literally send everyone a greeting card for every single holiday because he feels lonely

Eragon would love baking, but he would always make mistakes in measuring ingredients

Murtagh loves reading romance

[rainwalker-dragonblade29]

Atra esterní Ono thelduin!

Dropping in to share a heartwrenching Eragon headcanon.... how Brom found ways to bond with his Son, and Eragon's early years in Carvahall.

Say, when eragon was a baby, Selena had just left Carvahall after telling brom about his son. Dear old Brom is so happy but sooo sad that he can't keep Eragon with himself, and it is bittersweet to know he will have to watch from afar because he can't ever tell Eragon the truth of his lineage...

And because Eragon is so widdle right now Garrow or his wife Marian won't take him out of home until he is a bit older... Brom takes flowers to Eragon just with the excuse to see him. He told Garrow and Marian that he's new in town and he's been hearing everywhere that a beautiful new baby has been born in Garrow's family and he is a sentimental storyteller who felt tempted to come congratulate. And that day, just a few days after Eragon's birth, his father finally sees him. It makes him very emotional, because baby eragon is very cute. And all he can manage to say "he puts stars to shame with that face and a name made for glory!"

Garrow and Marian are astonished to see him cry and he has to make up an excuse that he lost his own son long ago.

"I don't know if this is how all storytellers are, but no man should be this lily livered" Garrow whispers.

"Oh, but he lost his own child, imagine how you'd feel if we lost our Roran..." Marian retorts.

The couple pity him for it, and Marian says, "you can visit him whenever you desire friend." Garrow doesn't have a very high opinion of the storyteller but he seems kind says he'll allow it on occasion. Brom thinks they will feel like he's intruding if he came anytime he wished to be with Eragon which was all the time and they might see him as a bothering fly, and be suspicious of him so accepts their favour knowing he can't exploit their allowance.

So mostly he would scry Eragon when he was alone, or take an occasional hike up the hill once a month with the reason of "keeping his old legs still working young" to come say hi to Eragon, but sparingly.

When harvest time usually came, before Selena left Eragon there, only Garrow would do the harvest, and Marian would care for lil Roran... but when harvest came sometime before eragon turned a year old, there was to be some wedding in the village and Marian had promised to help the other ladies prepare. So she had no option but to take Eragon and Roran with her, and she's finding the kids hard to manage as her attention is very much split between her work with the food and to whomever who is just a little free to watch the two boys for a few minutes, with eragon crying loudly and Roran running about nobody has peace.

Brom came amidst all this as the family of the bride to be married had asked him to marry them for he was fairly old and the reputation of a goodwilled man who came to their aid when they needed someone to read the vows. And he heard all the commotion happening in the back with Roran banging pots and pans and Eragon crying and he tells Marian he could take the kids to his little house and watch them till Marian is done. No one is sure how an old man could care for two children let alone a baby, but since everyone is tired of the clamor they are grateful that Brom takes them.

Roran finds two spoons in his house and he is again hitting them together and baby eragon cries so brom casts a spell so that only roran will hear the joyful noise of the spoons. He calms Eragon too with a soft glowing werelight that Eragon gets fascinated by and wants to hold the blue orb. And later that afternoon, he tells the boys stories till nightfall about Rider's city and dragons, with Eragon in his arms. Even roran listens to his exaggerated speeches.

When Marian comes to pick them up, Brom insists that she leave the kids with him every harvest time for he much enjoyed their company and even Roran behaved. That astonished her. And Eragon seemed happy too for he cried as soon as Marian took him from Brom's arms. So after that year she'd go leave them at his place during the harvest, or when the harvest was plentiful and Garrow needed a hand (much to hurt Garrow's pride for he was the "I can manage it alone" man) or she would tell Brom to come to their place to watch the kids. And some years went by in this fashion, when harvest time was the best month of the year.... and once Roran was 10 ish he'd help Garrow in the farm and Eragon was left at Brom's home and Eragon used to have much to tell Brom about Squirrels on the farm or curious things he looked at, and Brom would tell him more tales only to be met my half a dozen questions the moment he began. Once Eragon and Roran were old enough, he stopped using magic here and there around them.

He really cherished those early years, and it hurt to never tell Eragon the truth. And when eragon was 10 he was allowed to wander how he wished in town. Ever since forever Marian and Garrow would tell the kids never to go too far in the valley near the Spine and Eragon grew ever curious to what was so dangerous about them.

One day he wandered in there, trying to be brave and got lost in the Spine and nearly chased by a wolf. His family was worried sick, and Brom brought him homethat day to their relief. He had luckily scried him before and rushed to Eragon's aid as fast as he could.

Roran would tease him about it for some time. And Marian died sometime after that incident. But after that frightful experience, when Eragon was 13, he vowed to be braver and practiced archery and and before the winter he'd go hunt. Those who knew he ventured into the Spine were mostly afraid of the prospect. But Brom was proud of him. So very proud of his brave boy who grew up having his father and never knowing.

OH HOW I LOVE THIS SERIES!

[alagaesia-headcanons]

I love that Nasuada's major flaw is the same as one of Galbatorix's greatest flaws, and that it gets worse and more ingrained throughout the series. And it's so compelling because it's incredibly in character for her and there's every reason for the circumstances to perpetuate and exacerbate it, but that doesn't make her flaw any less egregious. The scene where Galbatorix compares the two of them is so fascinating because his intention is very manipulative and malicious, yet the statement itself isn't entirely untrue.

Because Nasuada treats people like tools. She considers a person's utility more important than anything else, including their personhood.

And it's such an engrossing flaw because of course Nasuada treats people like tools! She is proud and powerful and stubborn and noble and utterly committed to achieving what she has set out to do, by whatever means necessary. She will use whatever she has at her disposal to reach her goal, and that includes using the people around her. Of course, this doesn't make Nasuada inherently immoral; she cares deeply about justice and protecting her people. But her views on the individuals around her are impersonal and self serving.

And the goal she's trying to achieve is to win the war. Nasuada would never be pushed out of her ways by the circumstances because they work, the way she treats people accomplishes exactly what she intends. By its nature, the bloody act of war rewards using people like tools. It demands that, even; to a certain extent, it's an ugly necessity in war, but the thing is that Nasuada doesn't see it that way. She never struggles with or grieves over the need to consider people's individuality as secondary to their function. It comes naturally to her, and it lasts through the end of the books, when the war is already over.

Because I think the most flagrant example of this is at the very end, when Birgit intercepts Roran as he's leaving, presumably intending to kill him, and Nasuada says, "He has proved himself a fine and valuable warrior on more than one occasion, and I would be most displeased to lose him." It's such a wonderful, pointed line that perfectly sums up this aspect of her character. Because what a disgusting thing to say. Especially for the queen of all Alagaesia, perfectly positioned and empowered to stop this confrontation and declare it unjust if she cared to. But her words make no attempt at all to defend Roran as a person, only his value to her.

The way she uses others I find most evident in her treatment of Roran, Murtagh, and Elva. The way she tells Eragon that she thinks of giving Katrina a dowry as a "purchase" of Roran's goodwill and loyalty. In Uru'baen, only at great length, she makes the conscious choice to ignore Murtagh's past and only judge who he is in the present, but disregards any care for what that might say about him as a person, solely focused on if he could be useful as an ally. And when Eragon offers to revert Elva's curse, the one that condemned an infant to feel every piece of pain and suffering surrounding her, Nasuada is so fixated on Elva's utility and value to Nasuada's goals that she goes so far as to ask Eragon to fake his effort to cure her. She sees people as tools to such an extent that she can't recognize that relieving an innocent baby of unimaginable, cursed agony should come before her own priorities.

[soldier-lodbrok]

"With every end there is a new beginning."

Rough sketch of Gast, Aerith, Ifalna, Roran and Glenn in the Threads of Fate / Fatechanger AU by @holyguardian and me